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Taboo and sacrifice, transgression and language, death and sensuality-Georges Bataille pursues these themes with an original, often startling perspective. He challenges any single discourse on the erotic. The scope of his inquiry ranges from Emily Bronte to Sade, from St. Therese to Claude Levi-Strauss and Dr. Kinsey; and the subjects he covers include prostitution, mythical ec...

Taboo and sacrifice, transgression and language, death and sensuality-Georges Bataille pursues these themes with an original, often startling perspective. He challenges any single discourse on the erotic. The scope of his inquiry ranges from Emily Bronte to Sade, from St. Therese to Claude Levi-Strauss and Dr. Kinsey; and the subjects he covers include prostitution, mythical ecstasy, cruelty, and organized war. Investigating desire prior to and extending beyond the realm of sexuality, he argues that eroticism is "a psychological quest not alien to death.

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'Secrecy is, alas, only too easy,' remarks de Sade, 'and there is not a libertine some little way gone in vice, who does not know what a hold murder has on the senses...'
It refers to sexual activity considered now in the light of reproduction. I said that reproduction was opposed to erotism, but while it is true that erotism is defined by the mutual independence of erotic pleasure and reproduc...

2016-09-20 01:27

'Secrecy is, alas, only too easy,' remarks de Sade, 'and there is not a libertine some little way gone in vice, who does not know what a hold murder has on the senses...'

It refers to sexual activity considered now in the light of reproduction. I said that reproduction was opposed to erotism, but while it is true that erotism is defined by the mutual independence of erotic pleasure and reproduction as an end, the fundamental meaning of reproduction is none the less the key to eroticism.

Beings which reproduce themselves are distinct from each other, just as they are distinct from their parents..he is born alone,. he dies alone. Between one being and another, there is a gulf, a discontinuity.

The gulf is death in one sense, and death is VERTIGINOUS, death is HYPNOTIZING.

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discontinuous being we are, death means continuity of being. Reproduction leads to the discontinuity of beings, but brings into play their continuity; that is to say, it is intimately linked with death.

Further explanations below.

Asexual reproduction: A single cell forms two nuclei while the original being ceases to exist. But there is a point at the process at which a sense of continuity generates; and soon after this, as one becomes into two, there is again discontinuity for each beings.

Sexual reproduction: Sperm and ovums begin as two discontinuous beings; during uniting, the two original discontinuities disappear to form a new identity. The new identity, which we call a fertilized ovum, is discontinuous itself, just as the two beings before fusing; yet the fusion, the process of fatality to both brings up continuity at the very moment.

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Along with our tormenting desire that this evanescent thing should last, there stands our obsession with a primal continuity linking us with everything that is. This nostalgia has nothing to do with knowledge of the basic facts i've mentioned. A man can suffer at the thought of not existing in the world like a wave lost among many other waves, even if he knows nothing about the division and fusion of simple cells. But this nostalgia is responsible for the three forms of erotism in man.

1. Physical

2. Emotional

3. Religion

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The act of violence in the continuity of existence is the core of erotism

If we relate such transitions to our own experience, it is clear that there is most violence thing of all for us is death which jerks us out to a tenacious obsession with the lastingness of our discontinuous being.

Existence itself is at stake in the transition from discontinuity to continuity. Only violence can bring everything to a state of flux in this way, only violence and the nameless disquiet bound up with it.

The transition from a normal state to that of erotic desire presupposes a partial dissolution of the person as he exists in the realm of discontinuity.

Dissolution-----> dissolute life

Stripping naked is the decisive action. Nakedness offers a contrast to self-possession, to discontinuous existence, in other words. It is a state of communication revealing a quest for a possible continuance of being beyond the confines of self.

Obscenity: our name for the uneasiness which upsets the physical state associated with self-possession, with the possession of a recognized and stable individuality.

Violence comes from the gradual dispossession of self, in an emotional way

In antiquity the destitution fundamental to erotism is felt strongly and justified linking the act of love with sacrifice.

The concept of sacrifice leads to further discussion of erotism in religious context.

It would be only just true to say that if the element of violation, violence ever, which gives it its destructive character is withdrawn, this erotic activity reaches its climax far less easily.

Erotism always entails a breaking down of established paeans, he patterns, I repeat, of the regulated social order basic to our discontinuous mode of existence as defined and separate individuals.

The likelihood of suffering is all the greater since suffering alone reveals the total significance of the beloved object. Possession of the beloved object does not imply death, but the idea of death is linked with the urge to possess.

If the union of two lovers comes about through love, it involves the idea of death, murder or suicide. This aura of death is what denotes passion.

**

What I want to emphasize is that death does not affect the continuity of existence, since in existence itself all separate existence originate; continuity of existence is independent of death and is even proved by death.

'Secrecy is, alas, only too easy,' remarks de Sade, 'and there is not a libertine some little way gone in vice, who does not know what a hold murder has on the senses...'
It refers to sexual activity considered now in the light of reproduction. I said that reproduction was opposed to erotism, but while it is true that erotism is defined by the mutual independence of erotic pleasure and reproduc...

2016-09-20 01:27

'Secrecy is, alas, only too easy,' remarks de Sade, 'and there is not a libertine some little way gone in vice, who does not know what a hold murder has on the senses...'

It refers to sexual activity considered now in the light of reproduction. I said that reproduction was opposed to erotism, but while it is true that erotism is defined by the mutual independence of erotic pleasure and reproduction as an end, the fundamental meaning of reproduction is none the less the key to eroticism.

Beings which reproduce themselves are distinct from each other, just as they are distinct from their parents..he is born alone,. he dies alone. Between one being and another, there is a gulf, a discontinuity.

The gulf is death in one sense, and death is VERTIGINOUS, death is HYPNOTIZING.

===================================================================

discontinuous being we are, death means continuity of being. Reproduction leads to the discontinuity of beings, but brings into play their continuity; that is to say, it is intimately linked with death.

Further explanations below.

Asexual reproduction: A single cell forms two nuclei while the original being ceases to exist. But there is a point at the process at which a sense of continuity generates; and soon after this, as one becomes into two, there is again discontinuity for each beings.

Sexual reproduction: Sperm and ovums begin as two discontinuous beings; during uniting, the two original discontinuities disappear to form a new identity. The new identity, which we call a fertilized ovum, is discontinuous itself, just as the two beings before fusing; yet the fusion, the process of fatality to both brings up continuity at the very moment.

===================================================================

Along with our tormenting desire that this evanescent thing should last, there stands our obsession with a primal continuity linking us with everything that is. This nostalgia has nothing to do with knowledge of the basic facts i've mentioned. A man can suffer at the thought of not existing in the world like a wave lost among many other waves, even if he knows nothing about the division and fusion of simple cells. But this nostalgia is responsible for the three forms of erotism in man.

1. Physical

2. Emotional

3. Religion

===================================================================

The act of violence in the continuity of existence is the core of erotism

If we relate such transitions to our own experience, it is clear that there is most violence thing of all for us is death which jerks us out to a tenacious obsession with the lastingness of our discontinuous being.

Existence itself is at stake in the transition from discontinuity to continuity. Only violence can bring everything to a state of flux in this way, only violence and the nameless disquiet bound up with it.

The transition from a normal state to that of erotic desire presupposes a partial dissolution of the person as he exists in the realm of discontinuity.

Dissolution-----> dissolute life

Stripping naked is the decisive action. Nakedness offers a contrast to self-possession, to discontinuous existence, in other words. It is a state of communication revealing a quest for a possible continuance of being beyond the confines of self.

Obscenity: our name for the uneasiness which upsets the physical state associated with self-possession, with the possession of a recognized and stable individuality.

Violence comes from the gradual dispossession of self, in an emotional way

In antiquity the destitution fundamental to erotism is felt strongly and justified linking the act of love with sacrifice.

The concept of sacrifice leads to further discussion of erotism in religious context.

It would be only just true to say that if the element of violation, violence ever, which gives it its destructive character is withdrawn, this erotic activity reaches its climax far less easily.

Erotism always entails a breaking down of established paeans, he patterns, I repeat, of the regulated social order basic to our discontinuous mode of existence as defined and separate individuals.

The likelihood of suffering is all the greater since suffering alone reveals the total significance of the beloved object. Possession of the beloved object does not imply death, but the idea of death is linked with the urge to possess.

If the union of two lovers comes about through love, it involves the idea of death, murder or suicide. This aura of death is what denotes passion.

**

What I want to emphasize is that death does not affect the continuity of existence, since in existence itself all separate existence originate; continuity of existence is independent of death and is even proved by death.

'Secrecy is, alas, only too easy,' remarks de Sade, 'and there is not a libertine some little way gone in vice, who does not know what a hold murder has on the senses...'
It refers to sexual activity considered now in the light of reproduction. I said that reproduction was opposed to erotism, but while it is true that erotism is defined by the mutual independence of erotic pleasure and reproduc...

2016-09-20 01:27

'Secrecy is, alas, only too easy,' remarks de Sade, 'and there is not a libertine some little way gone in vice, who does not know what a hold murder has on the senses...'

It refers to sexual activity considered now in the light of reproduction. I said that reproduction was opposed to erotism, but while it is true that erotism is defined by the mutual independence of erotic pleasure and reproduction as an end, the fundamental meaning of reproduction is none the less the key to eroticism.

Beings which reproduce themselves are distinct from each other, just as they are distinct from their parents..he is born alone,. he dies alone. Between one being and another, there is a gulf, a discontinuity.

The gulf is death in one sense, and death is VERTIGINOUS, death is HYPNOTIZING.

===================================================================

discontinuous being we are, death means continuity of being. Reproduction leads to the discontinuity of beings, but brings into play their continuity; that is to say, it is intimately linked with death.

Further explanations below.

Asexual reproduction: A single cell forms two nuclei while the original being ceases to exist. But there is a point at the process at which a sense of continuity generates; and soon after this, as one becomes into two, there is again discontinuity for each beings.

Sexual reproduction: Sperm and ovums begin as two discontinuous beings; during uniting, the two original discontinuities disappear to form a new identity. The new identity, which we call a fertilized ovum, is discontinuous itself, just as the two beings before fusing; yet the fusion, the process of fatality to both brings up continuity at the very moment.

===================================================================

Along with our tormenting desire that this evanescent thing should last, there stands our obsession with a primal continuity linking us with everything that is. This nostalgia has nothing to do with knowledge of the basic facts i've mentioned. A man can suffer at the thought of not existing in the world like a wave lost among many other waves, even if he knows nothing about the division and fusion of simple cells. But this nostalgia is responsible for the three forms of erotism in man.

1. Physical

2. Emotional

3. Religion

===================================================================

The act of violence in the continuity of existence is the core of erotism

If we relate such transitions to our own experience, it is clear that there is most violence thing of all for us is death which jerks us out to a tenacious obsession with the lastingness of our discontinuous being.

Existence itself is at stake in the transition from discontinuity to continuity. Only violence can bring everything to a state of flux in this way, only violence and the nameless disquiet bound up with it.

The transition from a normal state to that of erotic desire presupposes a partial dissolution of the person as he exists in the realm of discontinuity.

Dissolution-----> dissolute life

Stripping naked is the decisive action. Nakedness offers a contrast to self-possession, to discontinuous existence, in other words. It is a state of communication revealing a quest for a possible continuance of being beyond the confines of self.

Obscenity: our name for the uneasiness which upsets the physical state associated with self-possession, with the possession of a recognized and stable individuality.

Violence comes from the gradual dispossession of self, in an emotional way

In antiquity the destitution fundamental to erotism is felt strongly and justified linking the act of love with sacrifice.

The concept of sacrifice leads to further discussion of erotism in religious context.

It would be only just true to say that if the element of violation, violence ever, which gives it its destructive character is withdrawn, this erotic activity reaches its climax far less easily.

Erotism always entails a breaking down of established paeans, he patterns, I repeat, of the regulated social order basic to our discontinuous mode of existence as defined and separate individuals.

The likelihood of suffering is all the greater since suffering alone reveals the total significance of the beloved object. Possession of the beloved object does not imply death, but the idea of death is linked with the urge to possess.

If the union of two lovers comes about through love, it involves the idea of death, murder or suicide. This aura of death is what denotes passion.

**

What I want to emphasize is that death does not affect the continuity of existence, since in existence itself all separate existence originate; continuity of existence is independent of death and is even proved by death.